Yup. Cause if turning a mouse into a super intelligent being were possible with a few smippets of gene code, evolution would not have produced it over millions of years.
Often, the "good" gene combinations that produce a desirable trait have negative reprocusions that far outway the positive ones.
I will attribute him to blind luck on the part of the researcher.
You did not have a problem. However, your activity is now in a database with Homeland Security. Unless the dealership was not complying. Non-compliance gets a company in deep shit quick. And, at least with banks, there is an annual audit process.
This isn't surprising. I work for a regional bank. Every employee is required to undergo training to know "what to look for". Doesn't matter if you are a teller, or a computer help desk operator. Anything over a certain dollar limit must be reported. As time goes on, the threshold has lowered. Pay off your house early? Gets reported. Large deposit? gets recorded. And anything overseas gets more scrutiny than J-Lo's panty lines.
The training creeped me out. the uber-patriotic person assigned to train our group was so into it. 3/4 of our group thought it was great... bringing down meth dealers who weren't smart enough to structure their money better. In fact, however, structuring is a crime as well... Go just below the radar one too many times, and you can be charged, eevn if there is no illegal activity behind the generation of money.
And, I would be wise to post AC (I won't, so this message might get more credibility) as advising someone how to avoid setting off the bells and whistles is a crime too.
Man #1: Dad's starting to lose it. Just the other day, he put the milk outside at night, and put the cat in the fridge. Man #2: Yea, bro, I've noticed he's getting worse by the day. Man #1: Yea, I'm thinking I should get him to move in with me, so my wife and I can watch over him close. Would you mind helping out on the weekends? Man #2: Yeah, right! Man #1: What do you mean?! Man #2: You remember when we played Enemy Territory? And he'd covert ops our asses left and right? Man #1: Yea... and he'd always voip over to use "You've been pwned noob! Just cuz he's got your uni on doesn't mean he's on your team. LOL!"... Man #2: Send the fucker to a home. Man #1: Yeah... what was I thinking?!
Yeah, right. Kids have a lot more free time, and studies show that reflexes begin to deteriorate after 25. It tends to be very slow at first, and depending on your work/hobbies may not be noticible... but I know I've been schooled by teeny boppers on many FPS;)
And if you want to fund an artist, probably the worst possible way to do it is to give your money to these shit eaters and let them take 90% of it, passing a pittance onto the person with the creative talent.
Better than the $0 they get from P2P. But thanks for replying AC.
Those services do provide many important benefits, but in the process of their enthusiastic adoption did we not loose sight of the most important issues?
The killer app is one that automatically fixes "lose" misspellings?;)
Did Bach, Mozart or Beethoven need the RIAA in order to be able to compose their works?
Nope. They all had rich patrons who commissioned their work.
I agree. We should go back to this. We will let Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer tell us what we can listen to... and Bush... and anyone else with the money. Much better than me being able to fund the music I want to listen to.
Sorry, I don't think so. Script kiddie is used disdainfully, because they are someone who like doing dameage without having the intelligence to figure it out on their own.
Yeah, I wouldn't mind giving it another try. It gets frustrating when trying to do development work that is document-centric. Microsoft wants their pound of flesh if you want to integrate directly into.NET applications.
Yup, that is why OpenOffice has spent such time improving the load time.
Faster Load Time
OpenOffice.org developers have streamlined the code to improve upon the time taken to initially load the suite. Also, a progress bar has been added to the splash screen.
A progress bar? Not sure if I was in 1.0 or 1.1. I sure don't remember a progress bar. But, I love the Linux user's response to a complaint: You are full of it.
I do use Linux on a very limited basis -- GeexBox for some multimedia... works nicely on old hardware... but I'm tired of the "our shit doesn't stink" syndrome that permeates the culture.
People reject OpenOffice and reject even Mac, because they don't know any different.
Yup. I loaded OppenOffice about two years ago, after being told how wonderful it was. Pentium 4 with 512 megs of RAM on a fresh boot.... 60 seconds to load. More disk thrashing than I get when performing a defrag.
But, I don't know different.
And no, I would not mind dumping Office... However, I love Outlook because of its highly configurable and programmable scheduling and task assignment capability, and Excel has many features I don't see anywhere else. Word has become bloated beyond what I'll ever use it for, however...
Q: So. Why don't you like Linux? A: Well... Office doesn't have features you want. Q: Are you a freaking moron? Few actually use all of the Microsoft stuff. So, in essence, you're saying you want desktops cluttered with unnecessary features.
I can't imagine why Linux zealots have a hard time communicating with the masses.
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Yup. Cause if turning a mouse into a super intelligent being were possible with a few smippets of gene code, evolution would not have produced it over millions of years.
Often, the "good" gene combinations that produce a desirable trait have negative reprocusions that far outway the positive ones.
I will attribute him to blind luck on the part of the researcher.
Umlauts get you marked on Homeland Secuirity's database for being an unpatriotic kraut head ;)
It is called "structuring"
Your spelling of the book was correct, not the AC.
You did not have a problem. However, your activity is now in a database with Homeland Security. Unless the dealership was not complying. Non-compliance gets a company in deep shit quick. And, at least with banks, there is an annual audit process.
This isn't surprising. I work for a regional bank. Every employee is required to undergo training to know "what to look for". Doesn't matter if you are a teller, or a computer help desk operator. Anything over a certain dollar limit must be reported. As time goes on, the threshold has lowered. Pay off your house early? Gets reported. Large deposit? gets recorded. And anything overseas gets more scrutiny than J-Lo's panty lines.
The training creeped me out. the uber-patriotic person assigned to train our group was so into it. 3/4 of our group thought it was great... bringing down meth dealers who weren't smart enough to structure their money better. In fact, however, structuring is a crime as well... Go just below the radar one too many times, and you can be charged, eevn if there is no illegal activity behind the generation of money.
And, I would be wise to post AC (I won't, so this message might get more credibility) as advising someone how to avoid setting off the bells and whistles is a crime too.
We don't live in 1984, but we might be at 1983...
When I refer to the "commercials", it is the spots on their web site
If no one is paying attention to it, how come you know about it, and I see dozens of articles about it?
Having said that, the "commercials" are so incredibly stupid, it makes me hope the whole thing flops.
Man #1: Dad's starting to lose it. Just the other day, he put the milk outside at night, and put the cat in the fridge.
Man #2: Yea, bro, I've noticed he's getting worse by the day.
Man #1: Yea, I'm thinking I should get him to move in with me, so my wife and I can watch over him close. Would you mind helping out on the weekends?
Man #2: Yeah, right!
Man #1: What do you mean?!
Man #2: You remember when we played Enemy Territory? And he'd covert ops our asses left and right?
Man #1: Yea... and he'd always voip over to use "You've been pwned noob! Just cuz he's got your uni on doesn't mean he's on your team. LOL!"...
Man #2: Send the fucker to a home.
Man #1: Yeah... what was I thinking?!
Pr0n with my parents would just be a bit odd...
Damn... and I just ate.
Yeah, right. Kids have a lot more free time, and studies show that reflexes begin to deteriorate after 25. It tends to be very slow at first, and depending on your work/hobbies may not be noticible... but I know I've been schooled by teeny boppers on many FPS ;)
Me, like many readers of slashdot, also hope to pass the Turing test one day, so I congratulate him on this achievement.
;)
You passed the test. No computer would mangle the pronoun usage like this!
How is this redundant? Maybe if you've read the other five "not quite dupe" stories... but this is not redundat to this article.
And if you want to fund an artist, probably the worst possible way to do it is to give your money to these shit eaters and let them take 90% of it, passing a pittance onto the person with the creative talent.
Better than the $0 they get from P2P. But thanks for replying AC.
Those services do provide many important benefits, but in the process of their enthusiastic adoption did we not loose sight of the most important issues?
;)
The killer app is one that automatically fixes "lose" misspellings?
Did Bach, Mozart or Beethoven need the RIAA in order to be able to compose their works?
Nope. They all had rich patrons who commissioned their work.
I agree. We should go back to this. We will let Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer tell us what we can listen to... and Bush... and anyone else with the money. Much better than me being able to fund the music I want to listen to.
Sorry, I don't think so. Script kiddie is used disdainfully, because they are someone who like doing dameage without having the intelligence to figure it out on their own.
I'd respond.... but all AC's are alike ;)
Yeah, I wouldn't mind giving it another try. It gets frustrating when trying to do development work that is document-centric. Microsoft wants their pound of flesh if you want to integrate directly into .NET applications.
Can you tell me what APIs are available with oo?
Yup, that is why OpenOffice has spent such time improving the load time.
Faster Load Time
OpenOffice.org developers have streamlined the code to improve upon the time taken to initially load the suite. Also, a progress bar has been added to the splash screen.
A progress bar? Not sure if I was in 1.0 or 1.1. I sure don't remember a progress bar. But, I love the Linux user's response to a complaint: You are full of it.
I do use Linux on a very limited basis -- GeexBox for some multimedia... works nicely on old hardware... but I'm tired of the "our shit doesn't stink" syndrome that permeates the culture.
People reject OpenOffice and reject even Mac, because they don't know any different.
Yup. I loaded OppenOffice about two years ago, after being told how wonderful it was. Pentium 4 with 512 megs of RAM on a fresh boot.... 60 seconds to load. More disk thrashing than I get when performing a defrag.
But, I don't know different.
And no, I would not mind dumping Office... However, I love Outlook because of its highly configurable and programmable scheduling and task assignment capability, and Excel has many features I don't see anywhere else. Word has become bloated beyond what I'll ever use it for, however...
Breaking down Barriers
Q: So. Why don't you like Linux?
A: Well... Office doesn't have features you want.
Q: Are you a freaking moron? Few actually use all of the Microsoft stuff. So, in essence, you're saying you want desktops cluttered with unnecessary features.
I can't imagine why Linux zealots have a hard time communicating with the masses.
(asbestos jockey shorts on)
The rest of Slashdot is either out on hot dates, or involved in Bible study.
... and post something ranting about DRM.
Blogger admits he has never used service. Does not address the fact that you CAN covert to another format if you wish.
Is iTunes perfect? No. But I have purchased 20x more music than what I would have otherwise.
And even if iTunes shut down tomorrow, I would lose 0% of my music.
Only thing I wish is that it would serve up a higher bit rate....
Perhaps you should take a look at this.
There are many more stories like it if you'd actually be willing to listen.